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December 29, 1943

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MARINES APPROACH GLOUCESTER FIELD; Air Strip Is Within Mile and Half -- Foe Loses 37 Planes in Attack on Arawe MARINES APPROACH GLOUCESTER FIELD

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US forces reach position within 1 1/2 mi of Cape Gloucester airfield; advance toward Borgen Bay; 37 Jap planes downed in raid on Arawe; Australian troops take Jap barge base, Walingai, New Guinea; gain in Ramu Valley; Sec Knox repts US destroyer sunk and small transport damaged in Cape Gloucester invasion

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Notable Births

Bill Aucoin

1943Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (died 2010)[†]

William Martin Aucoin was an American band manager, well known for his work with the rock band Kiss and Billy Idol.

1943Molly Bang, American author and illustrator[†]

Molly Garrett Bang is an American illustrator. For her illustration of children's books she has been a runner-up for the American Caldecott Medal three times and for the British Greenaway Medal once. Announced June 2015, her 1996 picture book Goose is the 2016 Phoenix Picture Book Award winner – that is, named by the Children's Literature Association the best English-language children's picture book that did not win a major award when it was published twenty years earlier.

Rick Danko

1943Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1999)[†]

Richard Clare Danko was a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a founding member of The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Notable Deaths

Art Young

1943Art Young, American cartoonist and writer (born 1866)[†]

Arthur Henry Young was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917.